Substituting Semi-Sweet for Unsweetened Chocolate (cookies, meals, recipe, baking)

[cindycat]

I haven't done much baking since moving two years ago, so I don't have my regular stash of cookie supplies. I'm not in a place where I can just run to the store for something.

I have a recipe that uses a cup of semi-sweet chips and two squares of unsweetened chocolate. I have neither unsweetened chocolate nor cocoa powder on hand.

Any idea how it would turn out if I use all semi-sweet chips?

[kuan]

Sounds like you're making chocolate-chocolate chip cookies. They'll be fine. You'll just have regular chocolate chip cookies instead.

[gentlearts]

You might need to reduce the amount of sugar, which may or may not screw up the chemistry.

[cindycat]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

You might need to reduce the amount of sugar, which may or may not screw up the chemistry.

I decided not to try it, for just the reason you cited. I made plain old (and wonderful) chocolate chip, pecan, oatmeals cookies. I'll have to get some unsweetened chocolate now, since I have a craving for those Fudge Ecstasies.